An object of this class contains a set of translations from a source language to a target language. PySide.QtCore.QTranslator provides functions to look up translations in a translation file. Translation files are created using Qt Linguist .

The most common use of PySide.QtCore.QTranslator is to: load a translation file, install it using QApplication.installTranslator() , and use it via QObject.tr() . Here’s the main() function from the Hello tr() example:

The disambiguation - an optional string that helps disambiguate different uses of the same text in the same context.

For example, the “Cancel” in a dialog might have “Anuluj” when the program runs in Polish (in this case the source text would be “Cancel”). The context would (normally) be the dialog’s class name; there would normally be no comment, and the translated text would be “Anuluj”.

But it’s not always so simple. The Spanish version of a printer dialog with settings for two-sided printing and binding would probably require both “Activado” and “Activada” as translations for “Enabled”. In this case the source text would be “Enabled” in both cases, and the context would be the dialog’s class name, but the two items would have disambiguations such as “two-sided printing” for one and “binding” for the other. The disambiguation enables the translator to choose the appropriate gender for the Spanish version, and enables Qt to distinguish between translations.

Multiple translation files can be installed in an application. Translations are searched for in the reverse order in which they were installed, so the most recently installed translation file is searched for translations first and the earliest translation file is searched last. The search stops as soon as a translation containing a matching string is found.

This mechanism makes it possible for a specific translation to be “selected” or given priority over the others; simply uninstall the translator from the application by passing it to the QApplication.removeTranslator() function and reinstall it with QApplication.installTranslator() . It will then be the first translation to be searched for matching strings.

Loads filename + suffix (”.qm” if the suffix is not specified), which may be an absolute file name or relative to directory . Returns true if the translation is successfully loaded; otherwise returns false.

The previous contents of this translator object are discarded.

If the file name does not exist, other file names are tried in the following order:

For example, an application running in the fr_CA locale (French-speaking Canada) might call load(“foo.fr_ca”, “/opt/foolib”). PySide.QtCore.QTranslator.load() would then try to open the first existing readable file from this list: